With a powered-up Cabal Coffers, this can end the game simply by casting one cheap spell and activating extort six or seven times
Plus, black Midrange decks have the right combination of grindy gameplay and beefy creatures to make fighting over and defeating Battles seem realistic
With Underworld Breach making spell-based combo a threat again, you might do well to have some cheap or free counterspells in your deck
While Atraxa and Valgavoth are probably still better reanimation targets, Koma is a creature you can reasonably hardcast
While the deck has a tight mana curve, there's enough ramp to make sure Cloud can keep coming back and that you can keep reequipping him in order to keep the pressure on
As for a bonus, Ill try to find the most promising creatures and noncreature spells out of the new set , and shortly explain why I put my faith in them